Starting Friday I will begin a new year in my life. Along with that new year will come my annual employee evaluation at work. Each January I sit down with my boss and we evaluate my work from the previous year. There are certain criteria that I have to excel in to get this raise. These include goals, performance, character, etc. Each one is graded using a rating system of one to five. The points are then averaged out and I am given a raise based on my average score. During the past four years of my career I have had some great raises and some ok raises. My not "ok" raises have been directly related to me not excelling enough in the areas required of me. I only have myself to blame. Either way, I try to learn from my mistakes and push forward to have a great evaluation for the next year.
The Standard Examiner today had an editorial about the upcoming pay increase for Congress. They are urging Congress to block this raise. They state a number of good points as to why and you can read the full editorial here: (See Here)
"Unless nothing is done to stop it, the group with the lowest approval rating of any legal organization in our nation is poised to up its average pay $4,700, or to $174,000 a year. "
According to PollingReport.com, which aggregates all the polling numbers from every major source, congress has an approval rating of around 20 percent. If I had an approval rating of 20 percent, I guarantee that I would not be getting a raise this year. Why on earth are we giving a raise to people who are not doing their job. I agree with the editorial that Congress doesn't deserve a raise and Rep. Bishop should join Rep. Matheson in pushing for vote to block this year's raise.
I think it was said best in the editorial: "The logic to reject a pay raise is clear — Congress simply hasn't earned it."
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